PICU to ICE

For a few days now, the PICU (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit) team has been trying to get Hudson to move up to the ICE Room (Intermediate Care Environment).  Yesterday, a room was finally available!  One step closer to getting back home…  We weren’t in a rush to get up to the ICE room because he would be in a more common area and it wasn’t one on one care.  However, Hudson is in a private room and the room has a small parent bed and a TV (?)  and he gets one on one care still because of one of the drugs he is getting still (Milrinone).  Once he is weaned off of it, they will reassess the need for one on one care and either Gabby or I will need to be there round the clock.  The ICE is pretty much the same environment as the 3M unit in BC Children’s but we already think we love the BC Children’s unit better.  I definitely like PICU in Stollery better than ICU in BC and was a little sad to leave the PICU unit.

Given Hudson’s fragile condition and being very sensitive to changes, we’ve asked to stay in Edmonton until Hudson is ready to go home.  Well that’s it for now… a quick update.  Thank you all for visiting and sharing thoughts.  And especially, thank you all for your prayers!